Joby Aviation Announces Plans to Double Manufacturing Capacity in United States And Produce Four Aircraft Per Month in 2027

Joby Avi­a­tion is mak­ing invest­ments to dou­ble its man­u­fac­tur­ing capac­i­ty in the Unit­ed States, as it plans to sup­port the pro­duc­tion of four air­craft per month in 2027. 

The com­pa­ny has recent­ly dis­closed more than $1 bil­lion in poten­tial air­craft and ser­vice sales and the news fol­lows on from a num­ber of key mile­stones aimed to jump­start elec­tric air taxi oper­a­tions in the coun­try.

They include the US Government’s eVTOL Inte­gra­tion Pilot Pro­gram (EIPP) being announced in Sep­tem­ber and a Pres­i­den­tial Exec­u­tive Order direct­ed the Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion and Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA). This is to enable mature eVTOL air­craft to begin oper­a­tions in select mar­kets as ear­ly as next year, ahead of receiv­ing full FAA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO, Joby Avi­a­tion, said: “We are enter­ing the next gold­en age of avi­a­tion. From fac­to­ries in Cal­i­for­nia and Ohio, we plan to rede­fine how peo­ple trav­el across the world, as Joby becomes one of a small num­ber of com­pa­nies in the world with the indus­tri­al capa­bil­i­ty to build air­craft at this pace and qual­i­ty.

“Giv­en the matu­ri­ty of our air taxi pro­gram and the sig­nif­i­cant demand we’re see­ing for our air­craft, we’re con­fi­dent now is the right time to invest in the equip­ment, facil­i­ties and peo­ple required to accel­er­ate pro­duc­tion, and we look for­ward to doing so with Toy­ota, the world’s largest auto man­u­fac­tur­er, at our side.”

In July, Joby cel­e­brat­ed the com­ple­tion of an expand­ed man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty in Mari­na, Cal­i­for­nia and in Octo­ber, con­firmed the start of pro­peller blade pro­duc­tion in Ohio ahead of planned man­u­fac­tur­ing expan­sion in the state.

To sup­port the growth in out­put announced by Joby, the com­pa­ny has begun pro­cure­ment of the cap­i­tal equip­ment required to dou­ble man­u­fac­tur­ing capac­i­ty from two to four air­craft per month. It is also hir­ing to sup­port round-the-clock man­u­fac­tur­ing oper­a­tions at its site in Cal­i­for­nia.

Last month, the Com­pa­ny announced it had reached a crit­i­cal mile­stone on the path to cer­ti­fy­ing its air­craft for com­mer­cial use, with the start of pow­er-on test­ing of the first of sev­er­al FAA-con­form­ing air­craft to be built for Type Inspec­tion Autho­riza­tion (TIA).

TIA test­ing is the final stage of the FAA Type Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process, dur­ing which FAA test pilots will fly Joby’s air­craft. All four of the remain­ing FAA-con­form­ing air­craft required for TIA test­ing are now in pro­duc­tion.

In May 2025, Joby announced the suc­cess­ful clos­ing of the first $250 mil­lion tranche of a strate­gic invest­ment from Toy­ota Motor Cor­po­ra­tion. The fund­ing marked a mile­stone in the long-term col­lab­o­ra­tion between the two com­pa­nies and sup­ports their shared vision for the future of air mobil­i­ty.

The two com­pa­nies are now work­ing to final­ize a strate­gic man­u­fac­tur­ing alliance that will sup­port the ramp-up of pro­duc­tion.

Bevirt added: “Our part­ner­ship with Toy­ota has been cen­tral to our abil­i­ty to scale man­u­fac­tur­ing. Their knowl­edge, expe­ri­ence and exper­tise has been invalu­able as we enter this next stage of growth.”